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Marketing and health claims on packaging can be very misleading. Food manufacturers spend millions on marketing and persuading the consumer to buy their products. Just because a food is packaged and labelled as being healthy does not mean that this is the case and so you shouldn’t necessarily trust the information that you are given. Therefore, reading food labels and looking at the list of ingredients is the key to ensuring that you are making healthy choices when shopping. Here are my top tips for reading and understanding food labels: Watch out for health claims that are stated on a...

I see it all too often in clinic. Clients have forgotten, or don’t manage to take time out of their busy days to relax. These days, we have almost forgotten the art of sitting still. And being bored. It is vital that we learn to relax and manage stress. Over time, it will catch up on you and this can lead to anxiety, depression and an abundance of serious health problems (2) How do I do this in my busy day, you ask yourself? Well, you don’t need huge chunks of time and people rarely have this luxury on a...

Many of us will be taking staycations this year, be it time off at home or time away in the UK. Hopefully we’ll have a valuable break from routine and a chance to rest, whilst we are trying to find a new ‘normal’ with the past few months having been stressful and challenging in many ways (1). There are many things that we cannot control in the world right now. But I do know that one thing that you can control is how and what you eat. A healthy diet is not a diet. It’s a healthy way of eating...